(Representation of who is in the workshop)
This week I will spend four days as a Technology Integrationist at the BestPrep Technology Integrationist Workshop #TIW18 on Twitter! I have been an Integrationist for BestPrep since the summer of 2014. Each summer I get to spend one week with around 15 educators who are working to connect technology in a meaningful way, in their learning environments, through digging into one unit this week through backwards design!
BestPrep was founded in 1976. They have seven programs and reach 60,000 students annually, engage 5,000 volunteers yearly and focus on experiential learning!
Learn more about BestPrep and the Technology Integration Workshop.
At the help desk this morning for #tiw18 stop by and say hi!! Excited to meet my wonder group of #sourpatchkidstiw pic.twitter.com/BhDb4PXNxO— Angie Kalthoff (@mrskalthoff) July 30, 2018
Learn more about the Technology Integration Workshop which is "Professional development opportunity designed to help teachers enhance their technology skills and learn more about the career skills needed for their students to be successful in the workplace. "
BestPrep is a nonprofit. The following companies help make the TIW workshop possible! Thank you!
Welcome from St.Thomas
Opus College of Business at the University of St.Thomas is our gracious host for the week. Our welcome from the college was by Colleen Sauter and a few of the topics she covered include:
- Life-long Learning
- Coding is the Future
- Mindset
- Robot Proof - Professors at the University of St. Thomas are all reading this book right now
- The Innovator's DNA - All under graduate students read this book at the University of St.Thomas
Keynote Takeaways from Jen Hegna
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-Extreme Job Disruption - AI, Robots, Self Driving Cars, 3D Printing
-What are the implications of these new work environments?
-What changes will our students face?
-What skills/characters traits will our students need to be successful?
Move from teacher centered to learner centered environments.
- self direcited
- moving from content mastery to learning mastery
- consumption to means to do real things in the world
Meta-Learning
-skills, knowledge, character area all important for 21st century education
Byron Public Schools
- Essential Learning Outcomes (ELO), how can we depend learning for our kids?
-ePortfolios for students, they have evidence of what they know
-Communication, creativity, critical thinking, citizenship, character
- #ByronBears
- Fairy Tales in Kindergarten - Interdisciplinary Unit
- Differentiation in 5th grade - Google Classroom - Shoutout to Kory Graham for introducing the teachers to it!
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